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Learning Communities Research and Practice Volume 1|Issue 1 Article 14 1-28-2013 Grading the Group: QUANTA 2.0 and the Peer Review Casey Blanton Daytona State College, [email protected] Michael Flota Daytona State College, [email protected] Frank Gunshanan Daytona State College, [email protected] Recommended Citation Blanton, C. , Flota, M. , Gunshanan, F. (2013). Grading the Group: QUANTA 2.0 and the Peer Review.Learning Communities Research and Practice, 1(1), Article 14. Available at: http://washingtoncenter.evergreen.edu/lcrpjournal/vol1/iss1/14 Authors retain copyright of their material under aCreative Commons Non-Commercial Attribution 3.0 License. Grading the Group: QUANTA 2.0 and the Peer Review Abstract Can students assess their peers on collaboration, a key practice in learning communities? The QUANTA program is a team-taught, two-semester coordinated studies program that is over 25 years old. The central governing ideas for the program are a belief in the social construction of knowledge, and recognition of the value of active, collaborative learning. Explicit instruction in and assessment of collaborative learning has always been part of the program. When new faculty took over QUANTA in its 24thyear, they experimented with “The Peer Review,” a tool developed by Michaelsen, Knight and Fink (2004) in which students rate other members of their group but not themselves. They discovered that students could assess collaboration; ironically, as part of their collaborative work, students also found ways to subvert the tool and turn it to their own purpose. Cover Page Footnote This article originally published in: Journal of Learning Communities Research, 4(1). (April 2009). Article is available inLearning Communities Research and Practice:http://washingtoncenter.evergreen.edu/lcrpjournal/vol1/iss1/14 Blanton et al.: Grading the Group 1 Learning Communities Research and Practice, Vol. 1 [2013], Iss. 1, Art. 14 http://washingtoncenter.evergreen.edu/lcrpjournal/vol1/iss1/14 2 Blanton et al.: Grading the Group 3 Learning Communities Research and Practice, Vol. 1 [2013], Iss. 1, Art. 14 http://washingtoncenter.evergreen.edu/lcrpjournal/vol1/iss1/14 4 Blanton et al.: Grading the Group 5
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